[e-gold-list] Re: Costagold,

2003-01-28 Thread Ian Green
I subscribed briefly and skimmed through the January ruling. Maybe the gold was converted to dollars in order to preserve the dollar value at that time for recovery in the near future by claimants (when the identity issue of claimants is settled). Also maybe OmniPay wanted to make their own

[e-gold-list] Re: Costagold, was Re: [dgc.chat] Stats

2003-01-26 Thread Ian Green
At 08:08 AM 26/01/2003 -0500, Craig Spencer wrote: Also note: the CostaGold escrow balance has dissappeared! Hmmm... I wonder who go that pot of gold. Hmmm, yes we definitely want to know about that. --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a

[e-gold-list] Re: Costagold, was Re: [dgc.chat] Stats

2003-01-26 Thread AnyGoldNow \(SSL\)
I'm afraid we won't (The Privacy policy blah blah blah...) Just like we are still waiting for a resonable explanation to the fact that the number of accounts keeps increasing by about 6,000+ a week, and the overall e-gold reserves don't go up (and indeed went down about 100,000 grams lately, to

[e-gold-list] Re: Costagold, was Re: [dgc.chat] Stats

2003-01-26 Thread Ian Green
Would not that approximately 100,000 grams be the (paid out?) CostaGold escrow balance? At 03:59 PM 26/01/2003 +0100, AnyGoldNow wrote: about 6,000+ a week, and the overall e-gold reserves don't go up (and indeed went down about 100,000 grams lately, to 1,541,409) --- You are currently

[e-gold-list] Re: Costagold,

2003-01-26 Thread AnyGoldNow \(SSL\)
Yes, that could very well be ! However, who would that have been paid out to ? According to information I just got following verification, the people who were defrauded by Costagold have not received anything... Patrick, AnyGoldNow Would not that approximately 100,000 grams be the (paid

[e-gold-list] Re: Costagold,

2003-01-26 Thread SnowDog
Yes, that could very well be ! However, who would that have been paid out to ? According to information I just got following verification, the people who were defrauded by Costagold have not received anything... This is one of those questionable operations. Didn't Costagold advertised itself

[e-gold-list] Re: Costagold,

2003-01-26 Thread SnowDog
I may have to stand corrected on Costa Gold. From reading some of the emails in this user group, http://ca.groups.yahoo.com/group/Global-Recovery-Group-how-to-join/ it looks like the money held by e-gold was recovered by the victims of the Costa Gold operation. If true, that would be welcome

[e-gold-list] re: Costagold

2001-01-29 Thread James H. Cloos Jr.
"SnowDog" == SnowDog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SnowDog Yes, we know they only accept bailment from GSR, but the SnowDog question is "Why?" It is my understanding that this policy SnowDog is from the Bank of Nova Scotia. Wasn't it Central Escrow's due diligence demands that was behind this

[e-gold-list] re: Costagold

2001-01-28 Thread Viking Coder
I wish GSR/OmniPay had a publicly viewable balance for their e-gold accounts, why don't they? ... I am talking about the OmniPay e-gold account 109243 Why is that not viewable? Dagny Taggart Because they are a privately owned company. They are under no legal obligations whatsoever to

[e-gold-list] re: Costagold

2001-01-28 Thread Viking Coder
(Note how I elided the repeated text, so the signal to noise gets back to bearable, and instead inserted "..." -- some here might consider emulating this behavior for the benefit of unfortunates on the digest, since it _IS_ in the welcome message I'm sure you all read when you

[e-gold-list] re: Costagold

2001-01-28 Thread Viking Coder
that OmniPay is like any exchange provider Note the use of the term "exchange provider" where market maker is mistakenly used. As JP May pointed out, market makers are legally obligated to offer a bid and ask price when open for business. Exchange providers can set their own bid and ask

[e-gold-list] re: Costagold

2001-01-28 Thread Sidd
Always assuming that the powers that be at e-gold were REALLY STUPID people! How do we know that they aren't? Well for one thing, they worked out how to make e-gold GSR work... You're still trying to work it out! They have control of the spot price of e-gold. If you look at their

[e-gold-list] re: Costagold

2001-01-28 Thread Viking Coder
So are you saying that there has been a court order? That would make sense then, I must have missed this in Mr.Reid Jacksons announcement. = Dagny Taggart You missed several points in his announcement. I suggest you go back and read it again.

[e-gold-list] re: Costagold

2001-01-28 Thread Jeff Fitzmyers
I am not trying to be a wise acre. Since you are unhappy with things, I am asking how YOU would set them up differently. How do you separate customers that make you money form the ones that cost you money? Is this separation fair, ethical, legal, profitable?? How do you deal with each type and

[e-gold-list] re: Costagold

2001-01-28 Thread LaMarr Dell
quote- I am not trying to be a wise acre. Since you are unhappy with things, I am asking how YOU would set them up differently. How do you separate customers that make you money form the ones that cost you money? Is this separation fair, ethical, legal, profitable?? How do you deal with each

[e-gold-list] re: Costagold

2001-01-28 Thread CCS
e-gold ltd. is trying to maintain the purity of their metal backing. The reason Omnipay can bail in bars when nobody else can is that they have an account with Bank of Nova Scotia. If an entity, corporate or human, seriously wants to bail in bars they should create an account

[e-gold-list] re: Costagold

2001-01-28 Thread Dagny Taggart
Please do, I would like to read this, sounds like a very entertaining piece of work. It is very likely that the restriction on bailment has nothing to do with GSR. Has anyone asked them? Yes. I have. It was like pulling teeth to get them to give a straight answer. But they finally

[e-gold-list] re: Costagold

2001-01-28 Thread CCS
It is very likely that the restriction on bailment has nothing to do with GSR. Has anyone asked them? Yes, we know they only accept bailment from GSR, but the question is "Why?" It is my understanding that this policy is from the Bank of Nova Scotia. Well, that would seem unlikely to

[e-gold-list] re: Costagold

2001-01-27 Thread Jeff Fitzmyers
that OmniPay is like any exchange provider Note the use of the term "exchange provider" where market maker is mistakenly used. As JP May pointed out, market makers are legally obligated to offer a bid and ask price when open for business. Exchange providers can set their own bid and ask prices

[e-gold-list] re: Costagold

2001-01-27 Thread Jeff Fitzmyers
Can someone here please explain what the essence of the previous paragraph is? Only post what is essential. So it is going to continue to be OmniPay's policy to keep secret its liquidity and solvency. What's wrong with that? Some have. Look at the publicly viewable balances. I see just

[e-gold-list] re: Costagold

2001-01-27 Thread Jeff Fitzmyers
What questionable activities? Define questionable Costagold and others that are even allowed to advertise on this list. I don't understand this definition? Are you saying that this is the justification to break the law, just because other people do it? Of course not, I just want the

[e-gold-list] re: Costagold

2001-01-27 Thread SnowDog
272 divided by 262= 1.038 which means that the price of gold has dropped 4%. GSR/OMNIPAY/e-gold is playing head I win tails you loose, no matter what they claim. It seems that you may be assuming that if they were to sell 10 bars of gold that they purchased back in early December, that they

[e-gold-list] re: Costagold

2001-01-27 Thread SnowDog
ECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2001 9:48 PM Subject: Re: [e-gold-list] re: Costagold --- "SnowDog" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 272 divided by 262= 1.038 which means that the price of gold has dropped 4%. GSR/OMNIPAY/e-gold is playing head I win tails you loose, no matter

[e-gold-list] re: Costagold

2001-01-27 Thread Sidd
Khurram wrote: Exchange providors make money on selling gold at a higher price then they bought it at. Since the price of gold has been recently dropping, GSR bought bars at a higher price then what they would be redeaming it at. Lets conside the above. GSR buys 10 bars at spot price of 272

[e-gold-list] re: Costagold

2001-01-27 Thread Dagny Taggart
--- Sidd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Khurram wrote: Exchange providers make money on selling gold at a higher price then they bought it at. Since the price of gold has been recently dropping, GSR bought bars at a higher price then what they would be redeeming it at. Lets consider the

[e-gold-list] re: Costagold

2001-01-27 Thread Dagny Taggart
27, 2001 9:48 PM Subject: Re: [e-gold-list] re: Costagold --- "SnowDog" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 272 divided by 262= 1.038 which means that the price of gold has dropped 4%. GSR/OMNIPAY/e-gold is playing head I win tails you loose, no matter what they cla

[e-gold-list] re: Costagold

2001-01-27 Thread Dagny Taggart
--- Jeff Fitzmyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What questionable activities? Define questionable Costagold and others that are even allowed to advertise on this list. I don't understand this definition? Are you saying that this is the justification to break the law, just because

[e-gold-list] re: Costagold

2001-01-27 Thread Dagny Taggart
--- Jeff Fitzmyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What questionable activities? Define questionable Costagold and others that are even allowed to advertise on this list. I don't understand this definition? Are you saying that this is the justification to break the law, just because

[e-gold-list] re: Costagold

2001-01-26 Thread Dagny Taggart
--- Reid Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is our practice to perform additional due diligence prior to fulfilling high value exchange orders to verify that we have adequate knowledge of the identity of our customer. I have been looking for the part of the user agreement where it says,

[e-gold-list] re: Costagold

2001-01-26 Thread jpm
I wish GSR/OmniPay had a publicly viewable balance for their e-gold accounts, why don't they? Dagny Taggart ? of course they do http://www.e-gold.com/examiner.html (its not as cool as this thought http://use.e-gold.com ! :) ) --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as:

[e-gold-list] re: Costagold

2001-01-26 Thread Dagny Taggart
You gave me the link for the e-gold examiner, since when have these two companies merged? I am talking about the OmniPay e-gold account 109243 Why is that not viewable? --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wish GSR/OmniPay had a publicly viewable balance for their e-gold accounts, why don't

[e-gold-list] re: Costagold

2001-01-26 Thread Dagny Taggart
My point exactly Craig! HEY! You guys should follow the same rules as everyone else. If I fulfill an order due to a bad exchange rate, then I'll have to live with it. Is this part of the Golden Rule, "He who has the gold makes the rules?" :) Craig --- SnowDog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I

[e-gold-list] re: Costagold

2001-01-26 Thread CCS
I'd note that OmniPay is like any exchange provider, ... OmniPay is NOT like any other exchange provider. Not only is there a past history of unity with e-gold and an incestuous relation amoung the principals of the "two" companies but OmniPay has the exclusive privilege of bailment. CCS

[e-gold-list] Re: Costagold

2001-01-26 Thread Michael Moore
On this occasion I must say that Reid Jackson is quite right. In laymans terms the authenticity of a transaction, particularly when it is as large as this one, requires confirmation for the protection of all. If you read the original public announcement it is the authenticity of the

[e-gold-list] re: Costagold

2001-01-26 Thread Dagny Taggart
--- "James M. Ray" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 7:21 PM -0800 1/26/01, Dagny Taggart wrote: My point exactly Craig! ... (Note how I elided the repeated text, so the signal to noise gets back to bearable, and instead inserted "..." -- some here might consider emulating this behavior for

[e-gold-list] re: Costagold

2001-01-26 Thread Dagny Taggart
--- "James M. Ray" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 7:21 PM -0800 1/26/01, Dagny Taggart wrote: My point exactly Craig! ... (Note how I elided the repeated text, so the signal to noise gets back to bearable, and instead inserted "..." -- some here might consider emulating this behavior for

[e-gold-list] re: Costagold

2001-01-26 Thread Claude Cormier
On 26 Jan 2001, at 21:31, Dagny Taggart wrote: This is from the e-gold agreement. The Costa Affair is an OmniPay matter. Last I heard you wanted us to believe that e-gold and Omnipay are two different companies. Well the GSR/Omnipay User agreement has the same provisions. See 9.0 and 3.0